1. Internet2 International Task Force Meeting Part 1: 08:30 – 12:00 Part 2: 13:00 – 17:00 Part 1: 08:30 – 12:00 Part 2: 13:00 – 17:00

2. Part 1 Performance Measurement and Monitoring Infrastructures: end-to-end support for international users BREAK Interconnecting RONs and NRENs and national infrastructure: emerging models for dark-fiber based networks and other optical networking trends in the global R&E community

3. Internet2 International Task Force Meeting Part 1: 08:30 – 12:00 Part 2: 13:00 – 17:00 Part 1: 08:30 – 12:00 Part 2: 13:00 – 17:00

4. International Task Force Representatives of each of Internet2’s international partners Partnerships (through memoranda of understanding) currently number 46 With ~58 organizations (some partnerships with multiple orgs in a country) Newest partnership: TENET (South Africa) Providing Internet2 community with connectivity to over 61 countries

5. Europe-Middle East Austria (ACOnet) Belgium (BELNET) Croatia (CARNet) Czech Rep. (CESNET) Cyprus (CYNET) Denmark (Forskningsnettet) Estonia (EENet) Finland (Funet) France (Renater) Germany (G-WIN) Greece (GRNET) Hungary (HUNGARNET) Iceland (RHnet) Ireland (HEAnet) Israel (IUCC) Italy (GARR) Latvia (LATNET) Lithuania (LITNET) Luxembourg (RESTENA) Asia-Pacific Americas Argentina (RETINA) Brazil (RNP2/ANSP) Canada (CA*net) Chile (REUNA) Mexico (Red-CUDI) United States (Abilene) Peru (RAAP) Venezuela (REACCIUN-2) Last updated: April 2005 Malta (Univ. Malta) Netherlands (SURFnet) Norway (UNINETT) Poland (POL34) Portugal (RCTS2) Qatar (Qatar FN) Romania (RoEduNet) Russia (RBnet) Slovakia (SANET) Slovenia (ARNES) Spain (RedIRIS) Sweden (SUNET) Switzerland (SWITCH) United Kingdom (JANET) Turkey (ULAKBYM) *CERN Australia (AARNET) China (CERNET, CSTNET, NSFCNET) Hong Kong (HARNET) Japan (SINET, WIDE, JGN2) Korea (KOREN, KREONET2) Singapore (SingAREN) Philippines (PREGINET) Taiwan (TANet2, ASNet) Thailand (UNINET, ThaiSARN) Networks reachable via Abilene - by country More information at http://abilene.internet2.edu/peernetworks/international.html Algeria (CERIST) Egypt (EUN/ENSTIN) Morocco (CNRST) Tunisia (RFR) South Africa (TENET) Central Asia Africa Armenia (ARENA) Georgia (GRENA) Kazakhstan (KAZRENA) Tajikistan (TARENA) Uzbekistan (UZSCI)

6. Beyond network infrastructure For Internet2, partnerships have also led to multi-national collaborations in: Middleware infrastructure – interconnection of national trust federations Performance measurement and monitoring infrastructure Collaboration support infrastructure – video in particular

7. Communications mou-rep@internet2.edu Executive liaisons from each partner organization intl-info@internet2.ledu Announcements of interest to international partners and international-minded Member update contributions sought! Showcase contributions too!

8. International highlights throughout rest of the FMM “Highlights” handout Internet2 Special Interest Group Wednesday, 7:30 – 8:45, Logans II Breakfast will be served! Sunday meeting on African R&E Networking Summary presentation later this afternoon Presentations, archived webstream, report soon International reception Thanks to Sun Microsystems!

9. Need something? Internet2 International staff Heather Boyles – heather@internet2.eduheather@internet2.edu Ana Preston – apreston@internet2.eduapreston@internet2.edu Karen Doemer – kdoemer@internet2.edukdoemer@internet2.edu Giselle Trent – giselle@internet2.edugiselle@internet2.edu